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From: Digestifier <Linux-Admin-Request@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>
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To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Reply-To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Date: Sat, 8 Oct 94 16:13:35 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #164
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Linux-Admin Digest #164, Volume #2 Sat, 8 Oct 94 16:13:35 EDT
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Contents:
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Re: Is there a firewall for slackware? (Andrew PRUSEK)
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Puzzle (Dongxiao Yue)
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Q: Max # of ftp/gopher/http users on a Linux PC? (Warren Ernst)
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Need advice on terminalservers (Ron Arts)
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Re: SCSI vs IDE (Drew Eckhardt)
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Re: Yggdrasil & large SCSI disk??? (karlf@acm.org)
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Re: Installing XFree 3.1... (Andre Schoorl)
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Re: Fast Scsi-2 COMPAQ (Anthony Marriott)
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dip-3.3.7h-uri & Zyxel U1496E SOLVED!!! (Dirk Hillbrecht)
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Re: CDD-522 recorder (or any other) on a linux box (Roger C. Pao)
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Re: Dial-in and Dial-out on one modem? (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR)
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Re: packet size w/ uucp? (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR)
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Re: Modem Question .. (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR)
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Re: booting in single user mode? (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR)
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Re: Upgrade SLS .99.12 to current (Tom Wilson)
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Re: XFree86-3.1 - Whoopee! (Rene COUGNENC)
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From: andrewp@itwhy.bhp.com.au (Andrew PRUSEK)
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Subject: Re: Is there a firewall for slackware?
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Date: Fri, 07 Oct 1994 13:42:24 +0930
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In article <36ljfp$b1q@blackbird.db.erau.edu>, pescej@news.db.erau.edu
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(The Weasel !!) wrote:
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> We are tring to setup a firewall to help protect data on our system.
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> Is there a firewall out there for slackware? I need to install it
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> on our gateway linux box.
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You need to take your kernel to about 1.1.49 and apply the ipfirewall patch
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then take a look at:
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tcp-wrapper
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socks
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fwtk (ftp.tis.com)
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regards
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Andrew
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--
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Andrew PRUSEK Phone: +61 86 40 4590
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BHP Information Technology Fax: +61 86 40 4720
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PO Box 21 / Port Augusta Road Email: andrewp@itwhy.bhp.com.au
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Whyalla SA 5600 Prefered OS: Linux
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Australia Disclaimer: My opinions are my own.
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From: dyue@mega.cs.umn.edu (Dongxiao Yue)
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Subject: Puzzle
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Date: Sat, 8 Oct 1994 00:59:50 GMT
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Hi, Hackers,
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I recently had a problem running dip, whenever I run
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it for the first time AFTER A COLD REBOOT, I get errors
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"getc: I/O error". However after the first time, I can run it
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without any problem, even if I warm reboot the system(say run
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dos for a while).
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This puzzles me, hope some of you knows the answer and kindly
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tells me, so I can correct the problem.
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Thanks,
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Dongxiao
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From: wernst@crl.com (Warren Ernst)
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Subject: Q: Max # of ftp/gopher/http users on a Linux PC?
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Date: 6 Oct 1994 15:09:04 -0700
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All,
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Our company is considering making a Linux equipped PC an ftp/gopher/http
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server, but I don't know if such machines are able to handle the load. We
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will ultimately be giving the machine its own router and 56k line, but we
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have no idea what CPU's are appropriate -- 486 DX2/66, P60, P66, P90,
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etc. The PC would have 16 Meg ram and at least a gig SCSI drive.
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What I'm really looking for is something like: "a 486-66 starts to bog
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down at 100 ftp logins transferring data out, but a p60 could take at
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least 400 without breaking into a sweat".
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We aren't sure what the average size of concurrent ftp/http accesses will
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be, but we would like to be more than 200. If a Linux PC is simply
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incapible of doing this, we would probably get a used Sun.
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Feel free to email or post your answers. I could really use your help. Thanx
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Virtually,
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warr
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/-----------------------------------------------------------------------\
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| Warren Ernst \ Computer Consultant / "Never quote me on this..." |
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| wernst@crl.com \ Technical Writer / "Overclock - it's your 486." |
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| Fullerton, CA, USA \ Graphic Artist / "Llama, llama, llama, llama!" |
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| Will Write for Food \ Nerd / "I'm EXACTLY one Warren tall." |
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Crossposted-To: comp.unix.admin
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From: raarts@netland.nl (Ron Arts)
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Subject: Need advice on terminalservers
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Date: Sat, 8 Oct 1994 20:49:04 GMT
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(If someone knows a better group to post this please say so)
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I'm expanding the number of dial-up lines to my unix box, and am thinking
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of installing a terminal server.
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Now I need some advice. Which kinds/brands are there? Is there a FAQ for this?
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It should support SLIP/PPP, and shouldn't be too expensive of course.
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Thanks for any info,
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Ron Arts
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PS: please email me, I'll summarize if requested.
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--
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NetLand Internet Services - Email, Usenet, gopher, WWW, ftp, telnet etc
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We also set up Internet-connected BBS'es or a WWW server for your organisation
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Info: +31-(0)20-6943664, dial-up +31-(0)20-6940350, Email: info@netland.nl
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<A HREF = "http://www.netland.nl/">Info</A> (dutch language only).
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From: drew@frisbee.cs.Colorado.EDU (Drew Eckhardt)
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Subject: Re: SCSI vs IDE
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Date: 5 Oct 1994 17:26:27 GMT
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In article <36ul9f$nbb@news.tamu.edu>,
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George R. Welch <george@leona.tamu.edu> wrote:
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>In article <36ss1f$b5v@newsflash.concordia.ca>,
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>Iain J. Bryson <iain@ece.concordia.ca> wrote:
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>>Hi. I am interested in hearing people advocating
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>>which is better, IDE or SCSI.
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>
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> While we are wading through the wave of followups, how about
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>someone explaining the difference between all the SCSI. I have heard of
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>SCSI
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The original SCSI standard.
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>SCSI-2
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SCSI-2 introduces a number of interesting new features, such as
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tagged queing which allows you to send multiple commands to a device
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and let it order them optimally and pipeline processing and execution,
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standard audio commands for CD ROMs, etc.
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However, nearly everything new in SCSI-II (and SCSI-III for that
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matter) are options and not mandatory, and SCSI is backwards compatable.
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So, if you didn't do anything silly (ie, choose the SCSI-I single
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initiator option), your marketing department can promote your
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SCSI-I host adapter to SCSI-II or even SCSI-III if they want.
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>fast SCSI-2
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Standard SCSI allows for 5Mhz synchronous transfers, the fast option
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allows for transfers between 5 and 10Mhz.
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>wide SCSI
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Standard SCSI is eight bits wide, where as WIDE scsi is sixteen
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bits wide, allowing for fifteen devices instead of seven, and
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double the transfer rates.
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There are some provisions for 32 bit WIDE SCSI, but I haven't
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seen any devices.
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>and AV-SCSI
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Drives made for AV applications won't drop out for thermal
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recalibration (ie, they'll either not do it ever, or will abort
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if a command comes in) so you have the necessary guaranteed
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maximum response time.
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>Which is best?
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Fast+Wide SCSI-III, differential and not single ended.
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Of course, you will pay hundreds (if not thousands) of dollars
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in the premiums for wide and differential devices...
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>Which is worst? How do you tell which one you have?
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If you're talking about SCSI targets, you ask them with a SCSI
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INQUIRY command. They'll tell you what revision of the specification
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they conform with, what options they support, who made them, and
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all sorts of other good stuff.
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The Linux kernel does this at bootup, so it will be in your
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kernel messages.
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Or you can run the scsiinfo program.
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>Are any of them compatible with the others?
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With the exception of single ended/differential, unless you've done
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something really stupid when you wrote the firmware, they're all compatable.
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>Why is this not addressed
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>in the SCSI-Howto?
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Because it isn't yet.
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There will be something in the next revision which will detail the
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differences between the various revisions of the specification,
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the options allowed in each one, and the practical ramifications
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thereof.
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--
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Since our leaders won't respect The Constitution, the highest law of our
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country, you can't expect them to obey lesser laws of any country.
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Boycott the United States until this changes.
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From: karlf@acm.org
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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Subject: Re: Yggdrasil & large SCSI disk???
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Date: Thu, 06 Oct 94 21:44:05 PDT
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In article <jeffpkCx6FsC.6Hs@netcom.com>, <jeffpk@netcom.com> writes:
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>
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> I dunno if this will help you any, but what I did with my ncr5380 generic
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> driver (which can't read geometry either) was to boot up DOS and run my
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> old DOS format utility (SpeedStor in my case) and it showed me the right
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> values for the drive, which I then wrote into the front of my linux manual.
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>
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Jeff,
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as it turned out, the Summer '94 Yggdrasil has a Rev. B boot diskette
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(available via ftp) which supports the NCR 53C810 SCSI chip. So you can
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install Linux this way. But since the 1.0.19 kernel is not on the CD-ROM,
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it does not get copied to the SCSI disk - and you get an unbootable
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system.
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This is probably good enough if you have an IDE disk plus a SCSI disk
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hanging off the NCR chip. Then you can install from CD-ROM with the Rev.B
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boot disk and replace the kernel by the one from the boot disk. But it
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doesn't work too well if the SCSI disk is all you have.
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I installed the Slackware distribution in the meantime and everything
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works fine (after I figured out how to install the undocumented "NCR"
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disk set...).
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Karl Finkemeyer, karlf@acm.org
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From: aschoorl@uglz.UVic.CA (Andre Schoorl)
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Subject: Re: Installing XFree 3.1...
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Date: Thu, 6 Oct 94 22:37:26 GMT
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In article <36vieo$neb@rc1.vub.ac.be>,
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FORSEILLES STEPHAN <sforseil@vub.ac.be> wrote:
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>
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> I've been triyng for some time to get XFree 3.1 working with
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>my Nr9 GXE/64 video card. The problem is that it doesn't seem to be any clock
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>rate that matches the rates of the card on the examples files. In fact
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>I think the problem comes from somewere else: XFree seems to be unable
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>to detect corectly the clocks of the card. Here's what it gives:
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>(--) S3: card type: 386/486 localbus
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>(--) S3: chipset: 864 rev. 0
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>(--) S3: chipset driver: mmio_928
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>(--) S3: videoram: 1024k
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>(--) S3: Detected an ATT 20C498 RAMDAC
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>(--) S3: Ramdac type: att20c498
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>(--) S3: Ramdac speed: 135
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>(--) S3: clocks: 25.21 28.32 28.32 0.00 25.16 28.31 28.38 28.35
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>(--) S3: clocks: 25.16 28.32 28.32 28.32 25.17 28.32 28.32 28.49
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I have the #9GXE64 as well, and had similar problems. Use
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ClockChip = "icd29061a" ( I think, check the icd* though )
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in your XF86Config.
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All resolutions work no problem for me now. :^)
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--
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Andre Schoorl <aschoorl@engr.uvic.ca> PGP key available via finger/keyserver
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C.Eng Student, U.Vic, Canada. -> LINUX! <- http://www-engr.uvic.ca/~aschoorl
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From: anmar@netcom.com (Anthony Marriott)
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Subject: Re: Fast Scsi-2 COMPAQ
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Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 15:15:36 GMT
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Please e-mail me if you figure out how to get linux
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running on a Compaq server (in my case I have a proliant
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1000 with a pentium processor).
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Since SCO/Unix and Novell/Netware run on this
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machine, I assume linux could run on this machine.
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I guess linux is not considered strategic to Compaq.
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Anyway, I do not have the time to play infinite
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loops with Compaq or to write the drivers myself.
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Oh well...
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For now, I assume linux will not run on my Compaq
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until I buy different hardware.
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NOTE: I have cross posted the same question to a couple
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of other linux groups very few replies?
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-Tony-
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Anmar, Inc.
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Anthony R. Marriott
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Bret A. Johnson (bret@bjohns.win.net) wrote:
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: Hello all,
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: I am tryingto install Linux Slackware Pro. ver. 2.0 on a Compaq
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: server. However, when the boot disk boots it does not see teh Scsi card.
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: It is a compaq fast scsi-2 card. Is there a driver I need to get for
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: this to work?
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: Can I infact run Linux on a compaq server?
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: Any help is needed!!!!!
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: Thanks...
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: | Bret Johnson Internet: bret@bjohns.win.net |
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: | PGP Key Fingerprint = 1C BF 78 7C 62 2B 96 7F F9 22 8D C5 A7 6C D4 37 |
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: |-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
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From: hillbrec@informatik.uni-hannover.de (Dirk Hillbrecht)
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Subject: dip-3.3.7h-uri & Zyxel U1496E SOLVED!!!
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Reply-To: hillbrec@informatik.uni-hannover.de
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Date: Fri, 7 Oct 1994 08:51:48 GMT
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Hi everyone,
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many thanks for all of you who replied by eMail or in this group. Meanwhile,
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after some more excessive testing, I'm up and running with the two above!!!
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The clue was the "dial"-command. Richard J Wyble <rwyble@iii.net> wrote to
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me, that
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> This version of dip (and several preceeding it) have Hayes command-strings
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> compiled in as default. Take a look at the source to see what it is actually
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> sending to the modem when issued this 'dial' command.
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> An alternate is to issue the dial string yourself, e.g., 'atdt1613075' and
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> then 'wait CONNECT' . . .
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I did the last one changing the dial-command into
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send ATDT1613075\r
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and it connected!
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Another error was waiting for the wrong prompt afterwards. I recovered this one
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by using the "debug" mode. It can be involved through
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echo on
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in the script file. After this, all output from the modem is echoed.
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Once again, many thanks,
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Cheers, Dirk
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From: rpao@paonet.org (Roger C. Pao)
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Subject: Re: CDD-522 recorder (or any other) on a linux box
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Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 04:02:02 GMT
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astein@chewy.biophys.upenn.edu (Me) writes:
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>I'm looking into purchasing a Philips CDD-522 recorder, but most of the software
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>that I've seen for writing disks is written for DOS or Windows, and tends to be
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>more than $800. I was cautioned against hanging a CD-recorder on *any*
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>multitasking system. Has anyone had successful experiences writing CDs under
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>linux? What software is used? (Does one use one package to make an
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>ISO-compliant disk image, and then another package to actually copy the image
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>onto the CD-ROM?)
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>
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>Any information regarding CD-recorders on a unix box would be helpful.
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CD recorders require a steady stream of data going from the hard disk
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image to the CD recorder. To guarantee this, you do not want background
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tasks to spontaneously start up and disrupt this continuous stream.
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I suppose if a driver and software were available, you could get it
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to work if you kill crond prior to writing.
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rp94
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--
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Roger C. Pao <rpao@paonet.org>
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From: mah@ka4ybr.com (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR)
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Subject: Re: Dial-in and Dial-out on one modem?
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Date: Sat, 8 Oct 1994 02:02:42 GMT
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Steve Miller (stevem@tyrell.net) wrote:
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: Can I dial in and out over the same modem? I do this on SCO Unix machines
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: all the time with no problems. The dialer changes the modem settings
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: to turn echo on to dial out (to detect "CONNECT" messages) and turns
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: echo off when done. If I leave echo on, the port sees the login
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: message echoed back and thinks someone is trying to login. This
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: causes TD and RD lights to be on all the time. If I run ps it tells
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: me someone is logging in as "login: Welcome to ........." (whatever
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: displays from the /etc/issue file and the login prompt). If I turn
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: echo off (Q1E0) then cu never sees the "CONNECT" message. How can
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: Linux change these settings each time I dial out, and change them
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: back when I am done like SCO does?
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See the mini-HOWTO about getty_ps on sunsite.unc.edu in
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/pub/Linux/docs/....
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Should tell you what you need to make it all work.
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- Mark
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----
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"Linux! Why waste your money on anything less? "
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============================================================
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Mark A. Horton ka4ybr mah@ka4ybr.atlanta.com
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P.O. Box 747 Decatur GA US 30031-0747 mah@ka4ybr.atl.ga.us
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+1.404.371.0291 : 33 45 31 N / 084 16 59 W mah@ka4ybr.com
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From: mah@ka4ybr.com (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR)
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Subject: Re: packet size w/ uucp?
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Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 12:55:35 GMT
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Kevin Cummings (cummings@hammer.westboro-ma.peritus.com) wrote:
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: In article <1994Sep28.095353.2313@ohbabe.stat.com>, jd@ohbabe.stat.com (John Dee) writes:
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: > Is there a way to increase packet size with UUCP to get a better transfer
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: > rate?
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: Yes, change the protocol you are using. "G" protocol is limited to 64 byte
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: packets, but someone wrote up a "g" protocol which supports larger packet
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: sizes (or do I have them backwards?). BOTH ends of your UUCP connection must
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: support it. Login to your UUCP host by hand and check out the protocols it allows.
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: Or increase your debugging output for one call and look in the log files for it.
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: Then get some documentation on UUCP that describes the various protocols, and see
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: what your options are. (You could always get a faster modem, but that is probably
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: not a useful answer B^).
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Righto Kevin,
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Except "g" is the 64byte packets and "G" allows larger.
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From the "info" entries supplied with Taylor UUCP:
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The UUCP `G' Protocol
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=====================
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The `G' protocol is apparently simply the `g' protocol, except that
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it is known to support all possible window and packet sizes. It was
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introduced by SVR4 UUCP; the SVR4 implementation of the `g' protocol is
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apparently fixed at a packet size of 64 and a window size of 7. Taylor
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UUCP does not recognize the `G' protocol. It does support all window
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and packet sizes for the `g' protocol.
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Also, if your Taylor uucp discovers that it's talking to another
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Taylor uucp, you can achieve much better throughput because,
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according to the file /usr/lib/uucp/README :
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If you are talking to another instance of the package, you can use
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the new bidirectional protocol for rapid data transfer in both
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directions at once. You can also restrict file transfers by size
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based on the time of day and who placed the call.
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and:
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IMPORTANT: the default when talking to another version of 1.04 is to
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use the new bidirectional 'i' protocol. If you are using a
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half-duplex modem, such as a Telebit T2500, you will want to either
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mark the port as half-duplex with the ``half-duplex'' command, or
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force use of the 'g' protocol by using the ``protocol'' command in the
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sys or port file or by adding ``,g'' after the port name in the
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Systems or L.sys or Devices file.
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Sadly, most instances of uucp out there are never set up to try
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any of the higher-density protocols and thus use the "g"
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protocol as a default. When you connect to them, the highest
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protocol supported by both systems is the one that wins the
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negotiation and you are usually stuck with "g" unless you are
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lucky enough to hit another Taylor. :(
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-- Mark
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--
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"Linux! Guerrilla UNIX Development Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus."
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Mark A. Horton ka4ybr mah@ka4ybr.atlanta.com
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P.O. Box 747 Decatur GA US 30031-0747 mah@ka4ybr.atl.ga.us
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+1.404.371.0291 : 33 45 31 N / 084 16 59 W mah@ka4ybr.com
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From: mah@ka4ybr.com (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR)
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Subject: Re: Modem Question ..
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Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 13:13:30 GMT
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Tony_Teague (teague@dorsai.org) wrote:
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: hi,
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: I want to set up my modem than is connected to my linux box to receive
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: incoming calls .. Can anyone tell me how to set it up or where I can get the
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: information from ..
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:
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: tony
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The serial-HOWTO, the mini-getty_ps-HOWTO, the Network Administrators' Guide
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from sunsite.unc.edu. in /pub/Linux/docs
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--
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"Linux! Guerrilla UNIX Development Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus."
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============================================================
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Mark A. Horton ka4ybr mah@ka4ybr.atlanta.com
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P.O. Box 747 Decatur GA US 30031-0747 mah@ka4ybr.atl.ga.us
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+1.404.371.0291 : 33 45 31 N / 084 16 59 W mah@ka4ybr.com
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From: mah@ka4ybr.com (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR)
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Subject: Re: booting in single user mode?
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Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 13:19:59 GMT
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CVL staff member Nate Sammons (nate@seurat.VIS.ColoState.Edu) wrote:
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: Can you issue a "boot -s" type command to get into single user mode?
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: The problem is, my machine goes to init 6 (xdm) but X is not
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: configured properly, so it sits there and flicks in and out of sync
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: with the monitor, and I cannot do anything. I need to be able to go in
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: and change the initial init state of the machine, and the easiest
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: way I can think of (with other UN*Xs) is to boot it into single user mode.
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: Any suggestions? (not in the FAQ that I could find)
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from /usr/src/lilo/README :
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Example:
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boot: linux single root=200
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single boots the system in single-user mode. This bypasses all system
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initialization procedures and directly starts a root shell on the console.
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Multi-user mode can be entered by exiting the single-user shell or by
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rebooting.
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root=<device> changes the root device. This overrides settings that may have
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been made in the boot image and on the LILO command line. <device> is either
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a hexadecimal device number or the full path name of the device, e.g.
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/dev/hda3 (The device names are hard-coded in the kernel. Therefore, only the
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"standard" names are supported and some less common devices may not be
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recognized.)
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ro instructs the kernel to mount the root file system read-only. rw mounts
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it read-write. If neither ro nor rw is specified, the setting from the
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boot image is used. no387 disables using the hardware FPU.
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-- Mark
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--
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"Linux! Guerrilla UNIX Development Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus."
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============================================================
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Mark A. Horton ka4ybr mah@ka4ybr.atlanta.com
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P.O. Box 747 Decatur GA US 30031-0747 mah@ka4ybr.atl.ga.us
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+1.404.371.0291 : 33 45 31 N / 084 16 59 W mah@ka4ybr.com
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From: ctwilson@mercury.interpath.net (Tom Wilson)
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Subject: Re: Upgrade SLS .99.12 to current
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Date: 6 Oct 1994 22:59:58 -0400
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In article <CxA1xs.FC1@tyrell.net>, Steve Miller <stevem@tyrell.net> wrote:
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:I dug up my old copy of SLS .99.12 and installed it without too much
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:trouble. Now I see everyone discussing 1.50 What are the advantages
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:to upgrading and what is the least painful way to do it? Is there a
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:way to just upgrade, or do I need to re-install? I dread the thought
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:of downloading all those disks again!
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:
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:Will I get SCO Unix binary compatibility with this upgrade? Or is
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:that a seperate package I can add to my installation?
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The best thing you can do is forget SLS and grab Slackware or one of
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*many* CDROM distributions (or MCC-Interim [my choice] and build up
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from there ;-)
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SLS *is dead*, and has been for quite some time. Among ftpable
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distributions, slackware is currently king of the hill...reinstall
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with slackware and I think you'll be pleased with what you get.
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By all accounts, it's much (and much more mature, of course) better
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than SLS ever was.
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SLS'er flames to /dev/null.
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--
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/-----------------------------------------------------------------------\
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| Tom Wilson | "I can't complain, but sometimes |
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| ctwilson@rock.concert.net | I still do." |
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| | -Joe Walsh |
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From: rene@renux.frmug.fr.net (Rene COUGNENC)
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Subject: Re: XFree86-3.1 - Whoopee!
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Date: 6 Oct 1994 04:11:33 GMT
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Reply-To: cougnenc@hsc.fr.net (Rene COUGNENC)
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Ce brave Patrick J. Volkerding ecrit:
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> libXpm-3.4c _seemed_ to compile fine under XFree86 3.1, but any apps
|
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> linked with the resulting shared library seg fault when executed. The
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> static version of libXpm works, though. (Mitch - are you planning to
|
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> look at this?)
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Well, I tried it and... It works fine.
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Make sure you have only the newly compiled libXpm-3.4c on your disk,
|
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to avoid confusing ld and ldconfig...
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I have now fvwm, with XPM stuff freshly recompiled under XFree 3.1
|
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with the new libs and it works with no problems.
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(But on a test directory, since I won't recompile all my clients and
|
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probably keep 2.1.1 for a while...)
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--
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linux linux linux linux -[ cougnenc@renux.frmug.fr.net ]- linux linux linux
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